Attractions of Chernivtsi region

The Interactive Science Museum of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine opened in Chernivtsi in 2022 in the Boyanivka Shopping and Entertainment Center. This is the first regional state Museum of the Small Academy of Sciences.

The main feature of science museums is that visitors interact with all the exhibits, explore the essence of physical, chemical and biological phenomena and learn how science works in real life. It is forbidden NOT to touch the exhibits here.

For research experiments, the science museum offers more than 100 exhibits, which are combined into four thematic zones. Most of the museum's exhibition space is made up of exhibits from the Small Academy of Sciences and partners from the German museum TECHNOZEUM (Mannheim).

In the Nature zone, you can feel like a participant in an expedition, plunge into the world of ancient animals and plants, conduct interesting research with traces and determine the age of a wide variety of tree species by their rings trunks.

The "Human" space reveals the details of the principles of the human body, allows you to explore the human skull, brain, heart, nervous system and skin, and examine the structure of the eye and ear.

"Physics" is one of the most saturated areas of the museum. Here, visitors can see a perpetual motion machine, a lunaphone, a noise meter, which will allow you to scream and simultaneously check the volume of your voice. You can also view X-rays and try on a pregnancy vest.

Thanks to the "Optical Illusions" exhibition, visitors can become part of the visual illusion created by the Ames room, look through a mirror maze or learn about the principles of the kaleidoscope.

The house at the intersection of Holovna and Sholom-Aleykhema streets, which resembles a ship in shape (in the Bukovyna dialect, "ship" is from the German schiff). The narrowed facade resembles the nose of a ship, the open area on the second floor is a deck, and the tower above the roof is a mast or pipe.

Urban legend says that the house was built by a local entrepreneur for his sailor brother, who was called to return home after many years of traveling across distant seas.

Shurdyn Pass is the highest mountain pass in Ukraine (1173 meters).

It passes through the Carpathian ridge of Rakov between the settlements of Berehomet and Seliatyn.

It is believed that this path was paved in 1914 by Russian troops under the command of General Oleksiy Brusylov. During the First World War, bloody battles with Austro-Hungarian troops took place in this part of the Carpathians, with Ukrainians fighting on both sides.

On the mass grave of fallen soldiers on the Shurdyn pass, the chapel of Archstrategist Mykhaylo was built.

The pass offers a wonderful panorama of the Bukovyna Carpathians.

The palace of the Shymonovych barons in Dubivtsi was built in 1914. A small two-story manor house of light green color, designed in the Art Nouveau style.

In Soviet times, a village club was located here. Today, it is the building of the Dubivtsi Rural Council. Only a pond and a few old trees remind of the manor park.

The palace of the landowners Skybinetskyi (Skybnivsky) in Hlyboka is the most interesting architectural monument of this small Bukovyna town, although it has survived to our days in a rebuilt form.

The palace was founded in the 19th century (according to other sources, at the beginning of the 20th century) by the Polish tycoon Bronyslav Skybinetskyi, who moved to Hlyboka from the family estate in Dunaivtsi in 1874.

The complex-shaped three-story structure, after numerous reconstructions, now looks like an ordinary administrative building. Currently, it houses the children's department of the central district hospital.

The Historical Museum of the Sokyriany City Council of the Chernivtsi Region was opened in 2015.

The exposition in four halls tells about the history of Sokyrianshchyna and the whole Bessarabian-Bukovynian region from ancient times to the present day.

Among the exhibits are archeological artifacts and finds, icons, books and photographs, household items, utensils, clothes, household items. In particular, an adult mammoth tusk 1.6 m long and weighing 60 kg, found in 2008 on the banks of the Dniester near the village of Voloshkove, is presented. You can also see the flint products of primitive people from excavations of a Paleolithic site on the outskirts of the village of Molodove.

The Storozhynets City Hall was built in 1905.

It is considered the second highest in Bukovyna after Chernivtsi.

The main architectural element of the city hall is a two-story clock tower with an observation deck, where steep stairs lead.

As before, the town hall building is a symbol of local self-government in Storozhynets - it houses the city council.

The "Luzhky" nature reserve is part of the Vyzhnytsky National Nature Park.

Here you can see unusual rocks with vertical peeling of rocks, waterfalls on the Vyzhenka River and its tributaries. There is a source of sulfate mineral water "Luzhky".

Recreational facilities are equipped.

The Museum of TV and Radio Technics was opened in 2024 by the "Suspilne Chernivtsi" branch of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (NPBU) for the centenary of Ukrainian Radio. It is dedicated to the history of radio and television in Bukovyna.

The exposition of the museum consists of several blocks, divided into different periods of development of television and radio. Presented are studio cameras and film cameras for on-site filming, editing tables and tape recorders used by Chernivtsi television broadcasters from the 1960s to the 2000s. In the photos, you can see moments of the work process of creating TV programs, local TV presenters of different times, journalists, operators, participants and guests of TV programs.

One of the main exhibits is the grand piano, on which Volodymyr Ivasyuk performed his first works for recording phonograms. It was under him that the first recordings of "Chervona Ruta" and "Vodohray" were made.

In order to visit the museum, it is necessary to sign up for tours in advance via e-mail.

The building of the Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi has been a center of national culture for over a hundred years.

The date 1884 is indicated on the facade - the year of foundation of the Ukrainian society "People's House". A two-story building was built for it in 1899.

The Ukrainian community in Chernivtsi has always been one of the largest. By the end of the 19th century it was inferior in number only to the Jewish one. Before the First World War, an active process of revival of the Ukrainian language and the national identity of Bukovyna Ruthenians, who recognized themselves as Ukrainians, took place in the city.

In the premises of the People's House, Ukrainian societies operated, periodicals were published, solemn events and meetings with outstanding figures of Ukrainian culture were held. Lesya Ukrayinka, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko and others performed here.

Now the building also belongs to the "Ukrainian People's House in Chernivtsi" society.

The Valiava Museum of Village History was opened in 1985 on the initiative of the writer Vasyl Kishkan. The museum is located on the second floor of the administrative building, next to the school.

The exposition of the first hall of the museum highlights the most ancient times in the history of the village of Valiava. The materials of the second hall are dedicated to the daily life of the local population - tools, everyday and festive clothes are presented. Separate materials tell about the construction of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village (1778).

The third hall tells about the events of World War II, on the fronts of which 123 villagers died. The exposition of the fourth hall is dedicated to the post-war period, the development of the village in 1970-1980.

Separately, materials are presented about the school principal, the founder of the museum Vasyl Kishkan (1929-1992) and his novels "Black Crows" and "Cold Winds".

The viewing platform in the village of Khreshchatyk is located on a high cliff above the Dniester, from which the most fascinating panorama of the city of Zalishchyky, located on the opposite bank, girdled by a steep bend of the river, opens.

From here, the road bridge over the Dniester and the domes of the Khreshchatyk Monastery can be clearly seen.

The observation deck is not equipped.

The building of the Vyzhnytsia Town Hall is located in the center of the city, on the former Rynok  Square.

The two-story building of the city magistrate with a stylish decorative tower was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Throughout its existence, it performed administrative functions: it was a magistrate during Austrian times, a city hall during the Romanian occupation, a district administration during the Ukrainian statehood of 1918-1920, and a branch of the State Treasury during Independence. Today it is a city court.

In front of the town hall, there is a monument to Lukyan Kobylytsa, a member of the Austrian Parliament, the leader of the popular uprisings of 1843-1849.

Since 2004, the Literary and Memorial Museum of the outstanding writer Yuriy Fedkovych has been located in Chernivtsi in the building where he spent the last years of his life at the end of the 19th century and also edited the Bukovyna newspaper.

In the memorial room, the interior of the newspaper editorial office, Fedkovych's workplace, is reproduced. The room-apartment presents the writer's personal belongings, his desk-bureau, early editions of outstanding works of art, musical instruments, and household items.

In the literary exhibition of the museum, the life and creative path of Yuriy Fedkovych, as well as the public and pedagogical activities of the writer, are widely covered.

The manor of the Ukrainian writer Osyp-Yuriy Fedkovych family is located in the very center of Putyla.

The original wooden house in which the future writer was born and raised was built at the end of the 18th century. In the post-war years, a new building was built on the site of the manor that burned down, which housed the museum's administration and the literary section, which tells about the creative life of the writer. In 1974, the manor itself was reconstructed.

Yuriy Fedkovych's family house is a typical Hutsul wooden house, slightly elongated compared to the usual ones, without additional buildings. The three-log house in plan, built of spruce logs, consists of a hall and two rooms: a small living room and a living room.

Today, the Fedkovych estate is a real ethnographic museum of the Hutsul region. Here you can familiarize yourself with national costumes, everyday life, the main types of Hutsul art, from wooden carved utensils to the architecture of a residential building.

Near the manor there is a well, from which Yuriy Fedkovych himself drank water, opposite the entrance to the museum - his bust.

The Yuriy Fedkovych Manor Museum in Putyla is a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.